Some dude was giving away books after his talk at the CPP Users Group in Redmond, got some good sci-fi.

That was me!

Will Wright gave at least one great lecture at SIGGRAPH. Wonderful thinker and communicator. #ACM plz unlock this culture.

Ants have fascinated me from a young age, I’d construct a viewing platform so I could watch the hive at work.

My favorite were the carpenter ants, so smart. It feels like they have a theory of mind. I didn’t hurt them, but if you disturbe their nest under a board, the efficiency and expediency they would exhibit while collecting their young was fascinating.

*edit, I meant to ask if you had any other book recommendations?

Well, I'm currently reading through "Designing Virtual Worlds" by Richard Bartle. He's known for being one of the creators of MUD (multi-user dungeon). I'm not far along enough to make a judgement on the quality of the contents, but I keep seeing the book title pop up everywhere so it seems important.

Not fired, moved. This part of the plan of ratcheting open the Overton window.

The ECC in DDR5 is there just to make it work because of the errors caused by the density and the data rates. The ECC isn’t there for you, it is for the manufacturers.

Joann Fabrics had decent foot traffic and the margins were good. My kid and I averaged probably 3 trips a month.

They sold a whole lot more than fabric.

It is a fun problem to play with, but it turns out you can use anything. I use a directory per recipient and throw anything I want in there. Works fine, LLMs are 1000x more flexible than any human mind.

The ESP32 pre-RISCV ISA is from Tensilica, this IP they purchased.

To be clear and towards the OP's comment about ESP32 ISA -- Xtensa isn't really a self contained architecture, it can be customized (extended) by the vendor. The ISA can be extended for these customizations. ESP32 is one customization of it.

It was only opaquely supported by GCC, no LLVM, so no Rust.

It is a cool design, but it was a major PITA for awhile. Xtensa is parametric so every instance of a cpu has a custom instruction set.

Heh. Yep. Reverse engineering firmware for a custom xtensa cpu is also a lot of “fun” (and also fun).

Does that include HN?

Absolutely lol - as a human in tech; I like to try and live like it is 1999 - and the 1999 where I wasn’t inside writing Perl but 1999 like when I was outside roller blading, skateboarding, bmxing, before I had a cell phone.

A very aggressive noprocrast could certainly get you there!

How long until Claude has noprocrast?

What does that mean exactly, how do you see that manifesting itself? Would we even be aware of these networks, sounds like email

Not email; social networking. Symmetrical just means the relationship is the same from both sides. Imagine a two-way "friendship" relationship (old-school Facebook) vs. a one-way "following" relationship (more recent Facebook, Insta, Twitter, etc.).

A followers graph is much more stable. You can have 1m followers but you can't have 1m friends

The friendship link on the site would need to go both ways. Request and accept. There is no concept of “Follow”.

In addition, I’d say limit the number of “friends” a person can have. Maybe cap it at 200 (Dunbar's number plus a little extra). This eliminates celebrity, news, and meme accounts. It also eliminates people playing the silly game of seeing who can get the most followers or bragging about follower counts.

These are your actual friends, who also consider you a friend. Even if a celebrity were to join, the site would be useful for sharing with actual friends, not their fans or casual acquaintances.

Facebook started out similarly, but I don’t think it ever had a friend cap. I remember some sorority girls try to get me to make a Facebook account around 2004/5, because they had a contest to see who could get the most friends. I thought this was stupid and said no. Since this happened almost instantly after launch, I think those friend limits are important to make people use it for actual friends and not a popularity contest. Facebook went the opposite way, leaned into it, and created the Follow option. It was all downhill from there.

I now code for fun with AI because it can handle the boring parts. 80% of anything is mostly drudge. And while we can’t subsist on frosting alone, having assistant that can keep you in the zone is very rewarding.

Three major iterations from now this whole conversation will be quaint and everyone will have always thought this.